Check book



y 1931. 1.. F. TRESBACK 1,305,263

CHECK BOOK Filed June 4, 1930 m M Wa ATTORNEY VTOR Patented May 12, 1931 ears CHECK BOOK Application filed June 4, 1930. Serial No. 459,159.

This invention relates to improvements in books and removable cove-rs therefor, and more particularly to check books such as are generally distributed by banks to their 6 clients.

It is the present practice to provide check books with durable and elaborate covers carrying a pad of checks and stubs, there usually being three checks to a sheet.

After the checks have been exhausted, it is the custom to save the stubs for future reference, and inasmuch as the stubs are securely bound to the covers, it is necessary to cut the cover, thus rendering them unfit for further use. Inasmuch as the covers are elaborate and durable enough for use for a considerably longer period, the present method of binding checks in the covers is uneconomical and wasteful.

It is an object of this invention to provide a device by means of which pads of checks may be detachably carried in substantial covers so that the latter may be refilled and used over again as many times as may be desired.

In accordance with my invention, the checks and their stubs are furnished in pad form, the sheets of checks and stubs being bound together by means of tubular rivets.

The covers are provided with apertures registering with the tubular rivets, and the pad is fastened to the covers by means of threaded bolts passing through the tubular rivets, and flat headed nuts.

The above and other advantageous objects, which will later appear, are accomplished by the simple and practical construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and exhibited in the accompanying drawings, forming part hereof, and in which:

Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a check book embodying the invention, and

Figure 2 represents a sectional view taken on line 22 of Figure 1.

Referring to the drawings, there is shown a pad 2, comprising a plurality of sheets, each sheet carrying several checks 3, separated by perforations 4 from the stubs 5.

The pad 2 is carried between substantially 5O rigid covers 6 and 7, which are provided with flexible portions 8 to enable them to be folded .back over the back portion 9.

portions 12 engaging the bottom of thepad, and the upper portion of the rivetis bent overa metal ring 13 to securely .bind the sheets of the pad together. i

In operation, the pads 2 or fillers, of checks are provided to the customer in the manner above described, the upper andbottom sheets of the pad being covered by blank sheets of paper for protective purposes. The user inserts the pad between the covers 6 and? so that theapertures 10 register with the tur bular rivets l l.

Abolt 14 having threaded portions 1.5 and 16 at its ends is then inserted inthe tubular rivets 11, and at oneend a nut 17 having a flat head 18 is screwed onto the threaded porv tion 15.

A similar nut 19, having a flat head 20 is screwed onto the threaded portion 16, or if so desired, the nut 19 may be formed integrally with the bolt 14.

It will be noted that the nuts 17 and 19 completely fill the apertures 10, so that the flat heads 18 and 20 are almost flush with the outer surfaces of the covers 6 and 7 this arrangement presenting a neat and attractive appearance to the book.

Now, when all of the checks have been used, it is not necessary to destroy the covers heretofore has been the case. All that is nec essary is to unscrew the nuts 17 to enable the withdrawal of bolts 14, after which a new filler may be inserted as above described between the covers, and the stubs of the old filler filed away for future reference.

It will be noted that I have provided a binding device which is unusually simple, it actually comprising only the three parts, viz: the tubular rivet 11, the bolt 14 and the nut 17; the bolt, of course, being provided with a head such as head 20.

By means of my invention the cost of furnishing customers with checks is materially reduced and expedited, as the usual binding operations are eliminated. At the same time, the bank Will be enabled to furnish the cus- 5 tomer with more elaborate and durable covers.

From the foregoing it'will be seen that a simple device for the desired purpose has been disclosed in the preferred form of its embodiment, but it is not desired to restrict the details to the exact construction shown, it being obvious that changes may be made without departing from the scope of the appended claim.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

A book comprising a cover having a back portion provided with aligned apertures, a

filler consisting of a plurality of sheets secured together by a tubular rivet having upset ends, a bolt provided with threaded ends, positioned in the rivet, and a pair of nuts adapted to be positioned in the apertured portions of said cover back and to have threaded engagement with the threaded ends of said bolt to detachably secure the filler to the cover back, each of said nuts being of a diameter and length to substantially fill the apertured portion of said cover back and to bear against the adjacent end of the rivet and being provided with a flat head adapted to overlie the apertured portion of the back, whereby the filler may be detachably secured 1n and be detached from the book back with out distorting said book back.

This specification signed this third day of June, 1930.

LOUIS F. TRESBACK. 

